2012:165 - KNOCKBRACKEN ROAD, CAIRNSHILL (PHASE 4), Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down Site name: KNOCKBRACKEN ROAD, CAIRNSHILL (PHASE 4)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/12/53

Author: Sarah Nicol

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 736622m, N 868297m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.544577, -5.888390

At this large housing development site building works have been taking place intermittently over a number of years as has monitoring of each new phase of construction (Excavations 2009, No. 267, AE/09/76 and AE/09/84; Excavations 2010, No. 217, AE/10/119). A test trenching scheme was drawn up for the latest phase of development; it consisted of six trenches placed along the length of the site approximately 20m apart. No archaeological material was found.

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